Senior Software Engineer

About the position

280 Earth is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a full-time, onsite position in Mountain View, CA. Looking for experienced software engineers to design and develop maintainable, extensible and scalable solutions, and frameworks. You will lead independent efforts to create the software infrastructure and applications that bring together the work from other teams such as front-end to industrial controls in order to automate the functions in industrial processes. Your contributions will span the range of user and customer facing products to tools used across the company. 280 Earth was formed in 2022 to scale up and commercialize innovative direct air capture technology developed at X, The Moonshot Factory (Google X). 280 Earth's proprietary process is unique in its cost-effective continuous flow process to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere, low energy use, ability to utilize waste heat from a wide variety of industrial processes, and positive generation of clean water captured from the air. The company is located in Mountain View, California and The Dalles, Oregon with projects under development nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and contribute to the overall technical direction for the software team.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Identify improvements to help maintain and continually uplevel our engineering culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C or C++ programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience working in a production environment (unit testing, code review, algorithm performance and tradeoffs, etc.).
• Proven problem-solving skills and experience working independently and collaboratively.
• Familiarity developing in Linux or other Unix-like operating systems.
• Experience with Git or other source code version control systems.
• Experience designing shared libraries used by others.
• Experience developing automation scripts (Python and Bash).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in industrial automation, robotics, or similar fields.
• Experience working with gRPC, Bazel, Cloud (GCP, AWS).
• Familiarity with plotting/visualization libraries.
• Familiarity with state machine design.